Title :
The Environmental Design Review towards the International Regulations
Author :
Fargnoli, Mario ; Sakao, Tomohiko
Author_Institution :
La Sapienza Univ., Rome
Abstract :
The latest research work carried out by scientific institutes and companies has provided some important results that show key design schemes, which can be followed for a wider action aimed at solving problems related to the environmental impacts of industrial products review work of the recent regulations, norms and policies in the field was carried out with the aim of clarifying the concepts and the utmost trends which characterize the new "green approach": in particular focused attention on the utmost and most significant regulations concerning industrial products development. The goal of the research work consisted in comparing European regulation and the Japanese ones, with the aim of developing a guideline to be used by designer as support for the products\´ review in accordance with ISO standards. In order to optimize such an approach and verify its effectiveness an application to a real case study was carried out
Keywords :
ISO standards; design for environment; government policies; legislation; product development; research and development; European regulation; ISO standards; Japan; environmental design; environmental impact; green approach; industrial products development; international regulation; legislation; scientific institute research; Degradation; Environmental economics; Environmental factors; Guidelines; ISO standards; Pollution; Product development; Production; Standards development; Sustainable development; Ecodesign; Environmental Design Review; Environmental Legislation; QEFD;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005. Eco Design 2005. Fourth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0081-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619282
